Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 19 / Trend I. Khalilova /
The volume of industrial production, that is goods produced and rendered industrial services in Azerbaijan amounted to 3.007 billion manat in January 2013, which is 0.1 per cent more than in the same month of 2012, the Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee said today.
The volume of industrial production in the private sector declined by 2.3 per cent to 79 per cent of total industrial production in Jan. 2013, compared to the same period last year.
Around 90.8 per cent falls to the production of industrial goods and 9.2 per cent to industrial services.
Production in the non-oil industrial sector grew by 2.3 per cent, while the oil sector fell by 0.4 per cent.
During the reporting period, the volume of production in the extractive industry decreased by 1.8 per cent to 2.28 billion manat with a weight of 75.9 per cent of the total industrial production. Oil production fell by 3.1 per cent to 3.8 million tons, while natural gas production decreased by 4.7 per cent to 1.5 billion cubic meters.
The production volume in the manufacturing sector was 0.526 billion manat, an increase of 13.8 per cent per year. There was also an increase in the production of computers and other electronic equipment by 2.3 times, furniture by 2.9 times, electrical equipment by 55 per cent, the printing industry by 78.6 per cent and production of finished metal products by 61.6 per cent.
There was also an increase in leather, leather products and footwear by 2.7 times, production of pharmaceutical products (57.3 per cent), construction materials (56.7 per cent) and tobacco (54.7 per cent) in January.
Food production saw an increase of 0.9 per cent.
The production of sugar and granulated sugar in the country increased by 8.6 per cent to 47,000 tons, oil by 87.4 per cent (6600 tons), cheese and cottage cheese - by 3.3 per cent (4000 tons) and jam and marmalade by 22.2 per cent (0.9 tons).
The share of production, distribution and supply of electricity, gas and steam of the total industrial production was 6.2 per cent, an increase of 2.8 per cent. Some 0.4 per cent, a decrease of 1.6 per cent fell to the water sector and wastewater treatment.
The official exchange rate is 0.7847 AZN/USD on Feb. 19.
